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Definition of Mountain fever
1. Noun. Caused by rickettsial bacteria and transmitted by wood ticks.
Definition of Mountain fever
1. Noun. (pathology) Rocky Mountain spotted fever ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Mountain fever
1. A rare acute viral infection transmitted via a tick bite (Dermacentor andersoni). Disease is limited to the western United States, particularly Colorado. The incubation period is 3-6 days. Symptoms include fever (that may abate and then recur), sweats, chills, joint pains, headache, photophobia, nausea, vomiting, rash and weakness. Treatment includes tick removal and acetaminophen to control fever. The disease is generally self-limited and nonserious. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Fever
Literary usage of Mountain fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"It would be well, I think, for the use of the term mountain fever to be discontinued.
Mountain sickness comprises the remarkable group of phenomena which ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"mountain fever. In a "Report on the Topography, Botany, Climatology, and Diseases
of Surprise and Goose Lake Valleys, California," by KOBER, we find a short ..."
3. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"mountain fever AND MOUNTAIN SICKNESS The cases described as mountain fever are
for the most part typhoid fever; perhaps more rarely lobar pneumonia ..."
4. Artemus Ward; His Travels by Artemus Ward (1866)
"X. THE mountain fever. I go back to my hotel and go to bed, ... I have the mountain
fever (so called in Utah, though it closely resembles the old-style ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"MOUNTAIN-FEVER, or MOUNTAIN- SICKNESS. The term mountain-fever was applied ...
The term mountain-sickness (sometimes used synonymously with mountain-fever) ..."
6. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"It would be well, I think, for the use of the term mountain fever to be discontinued.
Mountain sickness comprises the remarkable group of phenomena which ..."
7. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1887)
"mountain fever. In a "Report on the Topography, Botany, Climatology, and Diseases
of Surprise and Goose Lake Valleys, California," by KOBER, we find a short ..."
8. The Diagnostics of Internal Medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1909)
"mountain fever AND MOUNTAIN SICKNESS The cases described as mountain fever are
for the most part typhoid fever; perhaps more rarely lobar pneumonia ..."
9. Artemus Ward; His Travels by Artemus Ward (1866)
"X. THE mountain fever. I go back to my hotel and go to bed, ... I have the mountain
fever (so called in Utah, though it closely resembles the old-style ..."
10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"MOUNTAIN-FEVER, or MOUNTAIN- SICKNESS. The term mountain-fever was applied ...
The term mountain-sickness (sometimes used synonymously with mountain-fever) ..."
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